Church Leadership Conversations

Stanley Hauerwas

Stanley Hauerwas has recently published his most sophisticated treatment of mission and evangelism. Stanley Hauerwas, "Beyond the Boundaries: The Church as Mission" in Walk Humbly with the Lord: Church and Mission Engaging Plurality (ed. Viggo Mortensen and Andreas Østerlund Nielsen;...
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Update: Thursday, September 9. The interview is now posted: 'The Gospel Makes the Everyday Possible' 70-year old Duke theologian Stanley Hauerwas explains his new memoir, addresses his critics, and explains why he says, 'We're all congregationalists now.' Interview by Andy...
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I appreciated the analysis and conversation regarding Nathan Kerr's book Christ, History and Apocalyptic during January through March of 2009 at "The Church and Postmodern Culture" blog. But it is a bit tricky to find all of the posts so...
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Here is the term paper I wrote for my Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer course with Stanley Hauerwas It is entitled: "Bonhoeffer’s non-religious, concrete, worldly ecclesiology: Making sense of Letters and Papers from Prison in light of the rest of Bonhoeffer’s...
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Update March 27, 2009 The audio for the lectures is now available free online at the Carey Theological College website here. Original post March 4, 2009: Stanley Hauerwas is giving the Stanley Grenz lectures in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada this...
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I am taking a directed study course entitled “Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer” this semester with Stanley Hauerwas. Here are the books I am reading: Bonhoeffer Books Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Life Together and Prayerbook of the Bible (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Vol. 5)...
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"To be a friend to many people in the complete kind of friendship is not possible . . . it is necessary to get experience and to come into intimate acquaintance with each other, which is of the utmost difficulty....
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I am taking Stanley's Hauerwas's course "Happiness, the Life of Virtue, and Happiness" this semester. If you are curious why I would take a course like this when the name of my blog is "Church Leadership Conversations," I can sketch...
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I attended the Society for Pentecostal Studies and the Wesleyan Theological Society 3rd Joint Meeting at Duke Divinity School, March 13-15, 2008. I recorded three of the sessions with my little recorder. They are not the best recordings, but if...
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